Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetch only messages marked as seen

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:38, Matteo Beniamino <m.b...@pe...> wrote:
> Hello. I'd like to use fetchmail in order to make a local backup of
> mailboxes I usually read online via webmail clients. Since this is
> just a backup I won't normally read the fetched messages. I'd like to
> know if there is a way to configure fetchmail in order to only fetch,
> and possibly delete, messages marked as "seen" on the server. As an
> alternative, even an option to only fetch and delete messages older
> then n hours/days would be fine. Does such an option exist or there is
> a way to achieve the result? I've searched among the man page and the
> FAQs with no luck.

That'll be because that's not what Fetchmail was designed to do.
Fetchmail is designed to download entire mailboxes or at least the
unread messages.  Without changes to the source there's no way to
download only the seen email.

It also doesn't delete email after N days (I'm pretty sure that's in
the FAQ - it certainly used to be).

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